According to FRC:
Actor Kirk Cameron has just confirmed for the iPledge Sunday simulcast presented by Family Research Council and American Family Association on Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 7 p.m. ET. This nationwide live simulcast will also feature FRC President Tony Perkins, Senator Rick Santorum, Bishop Harry Jackson, Kristan Hawkins, and other key Christian leaders for a 90-minute event celebrating Christian citizenship and exhorting Christians to rise up on Election Day to make our voices heard. Your church members will be informed, equipped, and challenged to advance faith, family and freedom in your local community.
First, what is Christian citizenship? I’ve never celebrated my gay citizenship or my Jewish citizenship. I’m just a United States citizen and my loyalties are to America — not gay America or Jewish America. I’d be more comfortable if these folks referred to themselves as US Citizens who happen to be Christian.
Second, unless FRC is partnering with Apple, they should not use the term iPledge Sunday. Paging Apple Inc. attorneys we have a case of trademark infringement. Go get em.
Third, when FRC wants citizens to rise up on Election Day — they are exhorting them to vote for candidates like Todd “Legitimate Rape” Aiken. According to the New York Times:
The Family Research Council said it now hoped to sponsor independent advertising and phone banks and solicit donations for Mr. Akin. And by Wednesday evening, those tiny donations requested by Mr. Akin’s campaign several times this week were starting to add up. Mr. Akin’s Twitter account reported that he had set a goal to raise $100,000 by midnight and had raised $88,000.
The fact that FRC is trying to keep Akin’s hopes alive and send him to the US Senate should send a clear message to the dupes who think that FRC is just another DC lobby group.
It’s not.
Additionally, Chick-fil-A lover Mike Huckabee is defending Aiken as if he were a beleaguered chicken sandwich:
Who ordered this “Code Red” on Akin? There were talking point memos sent from the National Republican Senatorial Committee suggesting language to urge Akin to drop out. Political consultants were ordered to stay away from Akin or lose future business with GOP committees…I’ve always believed and still do, that if you don’t honor your friendships, you don’t honor yourself. And I consider Todd a friend. So I will join Todd as often as I can, in his fight for our Party’s pro-life policies, traditional marriage and our efforts to rein in the massive expansion of government under President Obama.
I’m so glad our opponents are taking every opportunity to reveal who they truly are. It’s making our jobs much easier.
Not to mention the last paragraph is a confession to the IRS that they just blew tax exempt status for a lot of churches.
They imply that “Christian citizens” are superior to other citizens. Despite their cries of persecution, they do seem to enjoy more privileges than members of other religions.
You know, this is one of those things where the stupid burns too much. It would be awesome if they lost tax exemption and if Apple decided to sic some lawyers on them for the iPledge name.
Hate is not holy.
“First, what is Christian citizenship? ”
Is that what people earn by joining the Terran Federation to fight Teh Gays on Klendathu?
“…to rise up on Election Day to make our voices heard.” —Do they ever SHUT UP!?
actually, Christian citizenahip is an ancient, not new “fundy” idea. Ones loyalty to ones faith, far exceeds ones loyalty to ones nation. “God, family, country” is the old saying (yes, in that order).
What is new, and wrong, is the idea that ones loyalty to ones faith is now mixed with the concerpt of forcing ones faiths (or ones interpretation of ones faith) on other via the law. the two are supposed to be seperate “render unto Ceasar what is Ceasars” etc.
to the non Christian (or one just passingly connected to the faith or a brance of it that does now focus on church history) this wont make sense I know. At it’s best, it should be a wall to protect ones faith from becoming tied to ones nation…and to protect ones nation from being dominated by faith.
this new perversion of it is a warping of a concept meant to protect the faith from the state, and vice versa….and it ends up cheapening one, and potentially damaging the other.
Sorry..I should have added some back up to that
Phillipians 3:20 “but our citizenship is not here, but in heaven…”
which one would think would shut up the fundys on American law, BUT…
from the Lords prayer “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”, which conservative fundamentalist Christians take so literally as to imply that YES, their idea of religious law should apply here…and not just to them, but to everyone.
at it’s best…it leads to mother Theresa, David Livingston and Alber schweitzer.
But this way, its just a way for failed actors and fanatics to push their views on everybody.